Would machine learning, machine intelligence or artificial
intelligence be a great driver of change over the coming decades, similar to
the Internet in the past 20 years? Google and Facebook have answered this
question very positively. Google paid $400m for UK artificial intelligence startupDeepMind. Facebook
hired deep learning guru Prof. Yann LeCun to run its new Artificial Intelligence Lab (I
visited LeCunís department at AT&T Bell
Laboratories and had a discussion on the Neocognitron
and his convolutional neural network over lunch in 1993).†

Industrial
Collaboration

Prof. Gan has
developed intelligent systems and software packages for signal processing,
computer vision and robotic control in the past years, in collaboration with
industry in the form of contracts with companies or through the KTP programme. He is keen to
collaborate with industry in the areas of sensory information processing,
computer vision, robotics and intelligent control systems, data analysis and interpretation
via machine learning.